SPEAKERS & MODERATORS 2018

Summer Lindman

Talkable Head of Customer Success

Summer began her career in tech after receiving her MBA from HEC Paris. Most recently, she has built out the Customer Success function from scratch at Talkable and has grown the team from 2 to 27 in two and a half years. Her team spans across two continents with offices in San Francisco and Kiev and includes the Implementations, Professional Services, Campaign Management and Data Analytics teams.

Igor Zhadanov

Readdle Co-Founder&CEO

Readdle's been creating iOS/Mac apps for personal efficiency since 2007. 8 products in the
portfolio, 100+ million downloads, top positions on the App Store worldwide. Current focus is
Fluix.io – SaaS document management system for mobile teams. We are speeding up the transition
to paperless processes in Siemens, BMW, SAS, Henry Schein and hundreds of other companies.

Kaarel Kotkas

Veriff Founder&CEO

Kaarel Kotkas is Founder and CEO at Veriff. He is the brain and driving power behind Veriff who
inspires the team to make it a global success. Kaarel is a resilient fin-tech entrepreneur who
started his first business already in high school. He loves the challenge of problem-solving and
excels in teamwork.

Peter Lyon

Brightflag VP Customer Success

Peter is a senior executive specializing in building and scaling Sales and Customer Success.
For now Peter is the VP of Customer Success for Brightflag, which is currently in post startup mode, scaling on
a global level to USA, Australia, UK and EMEA, and Сo-Founder of CustomerSuccessNetwork.org – Europe’s fastest and largest
independent Customer Success peer learning business.
Previously, Peter held Chief Customer Officer positions for various pre-IPO SaaS and other technology companies.
Peter is an experienced public speaker on Customer Success throughout Europe – Pulse, SuccessCon,
Customer Success Ireland, Customer Success Unplugged London.

Olman Quesada

AppSumo Head of Business Development

Olman is the Head of Business Development of AppSumo. Helped grow the team from 2 to 15 Sumos and
revenue to 8 figures in 2 years. He is involved in high-level strategy development (what does that even mean),
product analysis, copywriting and responsible for maintaining strong relationships with SaaS founders. To date
he's worked and helped launch over 100 SaaS products on AppSumo.

Vlad Flaks

OWOX Founder&CEO

12+ years expertise in eСommerce and data analysis. At OWOX Vlad is responsible for products
strategic development, performs as a speaker at ecommerce and analytics conferences and provides
consulting for leading multichannel retailers. With Vlad OWOX became the 1st company to get both
statuses of Google Cloud Platform Technology Authorized Partner and Google Analytics 360
(Premium) Reseller.

Igor Sokolov

Grammarly Product Manager

For the last 9 years, Igor has been building online businesses.
His expertise includes:
- Ran 4 businesses of his own. They all were unsuccessful.
- The first PM in a B2B startup. He joined the company pre-product market-fit, and it became a market leader in 2 years.
- Managed a portfolio of media products with a total 100M MAU.
- Product Manager at Grammarly.
- Founder of KPP – a community focuses on process culture in tech.
- Teaches Product Management in Projector, ex-curator of Product Marketing course.

David Braun

TemplateMonster CEO

David Braun is a public activist and serial IT entrepreneur. Сo-founded TemplateMonster. Working as CEO of TemplateMonster for 16 years, he has launched numerous IT projects.
Co-founded Weblium, advanced website builder based on top-notch technology and niche expertise. Customer Success Techniques specialist.
Moderates telegram channel Sales Hero about business, marketing and sales.

Anna Belous

Competera Head of Marketing

Head of Marketing at Competera – a smart pricing SaaS for enterprise retailers. 6+ years of marketing experience that spans multiple industries including eCommerce, marketplaces, SaaS. Focused on positioning, strategy, technology, channels, and content through a growth-minded, data-driven, inbound marketing approach.

Alex Kiselyov

Ringostat Marketing Director

Alex is a Marketing Director at Ringostat – call analytics service, which helps to raise the
effectiveness of sales and marketing. Alex has more than 7 years of experience in marketing,
design and production. His key expertise area is in-depth customers research and product design.
He implemented his competence in the above mentioned areas for several IT, real estate and
entertainment companies.

Ramesh Haridas

Angel Investor

Ramesh Haridas is an entrepreneur and angel investor. He has started and sold three internet
companies. His most recent startup was an AI powered email assistant that was sold to Google in
February 2016. He has also invested in over 60 startups. Some of his seed investments include
AVG, Ripple, and Refinery29. And some of his misses include (missing investing in the seed
rounds of) Uber and Twilio.

Cristobal Alonso

Invest Panel Moderator

Startup Wise Guys CEO

Cristobal Alonso is the Global CEO aka El Patron of Startup Wise Guys – Europe’s leading B2B
accelerator and one of the most active early stage investment companies in the Nordics&Baltics.
Cristobal’s unique background combines extensive CxO experience in different mobile operators
in Europe with advisory and CEO roles in multiple startups. He is the ultimate "make it happen"
person. Cristobal has a degree in business administration and an MBA by World's leading
business school INSEAD.

Pavlo Pedenko

SAAS NATION MODERATOR

Setapp Product Manager

Pavlo is the Product Manager at Setapp, the consumer product of the year according to Product Hunt.
Setapp.com is a fast growing SaaS business that was launched by MacPaw in 2017. Currently, Setapp
has 25k paying members and more than $3m ARR. Pavlo drives ProductTank Kyiv community, organizes
ProductHunt meetups in Kyiv, and mentors startups at both Google Launchpad Accelerator program
(Worldwide) and Startup Wise Guys (Latvia).

Peter Sandberg

Invest Panel

Business Angel

Peter has dedicated over 35 years to Finance, Asset Management and Private Banking. He was the
Co-Founder and CEO of 2 successful Asset Management companies. In the past 3 years, he has met
around 800 startups and made 26 investments. Recently chosen as one of "200+ Most Active
Business Angels in Europe". Peter is Chairman in 9 companies and has co-lead investments in 17
syndications.

Volodymyr Nesterenko

Invest Panel

Digital Future Managing Partner

Volodymyr is a Managing Partner at Digital Future, one of the most active venture investors
headquartered in Kyiv, Ukraine. He takes care of the firm’s venture and strategic investments,
including negotiations, deal structuring, partnerships, as well as day-to-day operations. On top
of his work at the venture firm, Volodymyr is engaged in pro bono projects aiming to help tech
entrepreneurs overcome their everyday and strategic challenges.

Viktoriya Tigipko

Invest Panel

TA Ventures Founder&Managing Partner

Founder and managing partner of the venture fund TA Ventures, which invests in innovative online
projects in the US and Europe (including Ukraine). The fund has invested in companies such as
Wunder Mobility, Caroobi, Klara, Sensely and 100+ others including Azimo, SumUp, Dreamlines.

Summer Lindman

Talkable Head of Customer Success

Igor Zhadanov

Readdle Co-Founder&CEO

Kaarel Kotkas

Veriff Founder&CEO

Peter Lyon

Brightflag VP Customer Success

Olman Quesada

AppSumo Head of Business Development

Vlad Flaks

OWOX Founder&CEO

Igor Sokolov

Grammarly Product Manager

David Braun

TemplateMonster CEO

Anna Belous

Competera Head of Marketing

Alex Kiselyov

Ringostat Marketing Director

Ramesh Haridas

Angel Investor

Cristobal Alonso

Startup Wise Guys CEO

Pavlo Pedenko

Setapp Product Manager

Peter Sandberg

Business Angel

Volodymyr Nesterenko

Digital Future Managing Partner

Viktoriya Tigipko

TA Ventures Founder&Managing Partner

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